by Luc Bürgin · Area Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783836110112
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«Irrtümer der Wissenschaft» is Luc Bürgin's popular science essay, published by Area Verlag in paperback (253 pages, in German).
The book reviews errors and mistakes in the scientific field: misunderstood geniuses, unlucky inventors and errors with capital consequences. Bürgin shows how failures are part of the progress of knowledge and how, sometimes, a mistake has ended up opening new lines of research.
The full subtitle is «Verkannte Genies, Erfinderpech und kapitale Fehlurteile»; the text is in German.
Suitable for those interested in the history of science and in anecdotes of errors and blunders in research.
